SCOoffice 4.2
MP1 Release Notes
Introduction:
This Maintenance Pack will add features described in these notes and provide a number of fixes for SCOoffice 4.2, including an update to Clam Antivirus. This MP can be applied to any SCOoffice 4.2 installation on either OpenServer 6 or UnixWare 7.1.4. The SCOoffice package must be installed as a prerequisite for installing this package.
Installation:
Prior to installation have all users exit their mail clients and shut down the mail server temporarily:
/etc/init.d/insightserver
stop
Installation must be performed while logged in as root. The distribution is in pkgadd format. Extract the pkg file to a temporary location, i.e. /tmp/mp, and run
pkgadd –d /tmp/mp1/sof42mp1.pkg
The installation will prepare a backup of all files being replaced by the maintenance pack, so that it can later be removed safely. After installation completes, restart the mail server as follows:
/etc/init.d/insightserver
start
Removal:
To remove the package, first ensure all users are logged off the mail server, stop the server as above, and run:
pkgrm sof42mp1
Added Administrative Features:
Branding:
There is now a capability to provide branding of the Web Interface for both administration and the WebClient. Branding logos are dependent on the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) that the user logs into, so there can be different logos for the different domains. For example, a company with a mail domain of mydomain.com, where the server is accessed internally at http://mail.mydomain.local and externally at http://webmail.mydomain.com, you can provide separate header logos for each login. Domain specific logo files are placed in the directory
/opt/insight/htdocs/branding
And should be jpg files and must be named to match the FQDN – i.e. for the above example the logos would be:
/opt/insight/htdocs/branding/mail.mydomain.local.jpg
/opt/insight/htdocs/branding/webmail.mydomain.com.jpg
Note: the extension jpg must be present and must be lower case. Permissions on the files should be 644 and owner:group of root:apache. Set these permissions as follows:
chmod 664 /opt/insight/htdocs/branding/*.jpg
chown root:apache /opt/insight/htdocs/branding/*.jpg
The logo will display in a window that is fixed at 50 pixels high and can be up to 400 pixels wide. Image files larger than this will be scaled based on height. Image files that scale to a width greater than 400 pixels will be cut off.
Account Management:
You can now add Organizations and Contacts through the SCOoffice Account Manager (Admin Web Page -> Accounts-> Create Organization or Create Contact).
Organizations are provided to aggregate either Users or
Groups by Organization. As an example a multi-national firm might have a domain
of mydomain.com, but may create separate Organizations for each region, i.e.
DOMAIN Organization Group User/Resource
mydomain.com Americas Sales_Americas Joe
Harry
Joan
Engineering_Americas Peter
Joyce
Europe
Sales_Europe
Pierre
Dieter
Marie
Engineering_Europe Martine
Francois
Emilio
The Organization information forms part of the LDAP database. Existing users can be assigned to a newly created Organization or Group. When creating a new domain it is simpler to create Organizations first, then Groups, then Users and Resources.
The Contacts functionality provides for adding Contacts to the LDAP Database, rather than to personal Contacts folders. If Contacts are created in the LDAP database they are by default available to all users, whereas if they are added to Personal Contacts folders they must be shared by the owner for all users to see them. It should be noted that Personal Contact folders store contact data in VCARD format and maintain different information than is stored in the LDAP database.
All Account Management screens (Add User, Add Admin, etc) that affect User licenses now display the number of remaining licenses.
Mail Preferences:
The Global Disclaimers has been modified to allow for basic HTML formatting of disclaimers, and you can now add graphics into the disclaimers if the graphics are uploaded to the Server via the Enhanced rich Text editor (see below). For more information, login to the admin site and choose Mail Delivery -> Global Disclaimers where you can enter the html source for your disclaimer.
Migration Wizard:
For a new SCOoffiice user whose email is available in an Outlook PST file, the Migration Wizard now supports uploading it to the SCOoffice server. See the Migration Wizard, Option 3 – “Export a PST file to the Server” for complete instructions.
Server Modifications:
The installation will now configure the Jabber Instant Messaging Server correctly and will start it automatically. All users will have a Jabber Account by default.
Screen graphics have been updated on all screens.
Manuals:
The Administration Manual and User Preferences Manual have been rewritten and are now available online as context sensitive links from any of the administration screens. The manuals are also available at the ftp site for the server.
Added WebClient Functionality:
Rich Text Editor:
The Rich Text Editor is now available to run in Enhanced Mode. This is selected by user through the User’s Preferences Menu screen by selecting both:
Use rich-text editor to compose new messages
Rich Text Editor Enhanced Mode
The Enhanced mode provides for virtually complete HTML formatting of email messages, journal entries etc. including tables, links, uploaded graphics, bookmarks, bulleted lists and advanced formatting. The Rich Text Editor now provides for uploading graphics, flash files, multimedia, and conventional files to be used in Rich Text documents. The uploaded files are placed in /opt/insight/htdocs/UserFiles.
Downloads:
There are now additional menu items on the WebClient menu to download the Outlook Connector, the Open Source WannaChat client to connect to Jabber, and the WebClient manual.
The Outlook Connector has been updated to version 3.1.5 with support for Windows Vista and Outlook 2007..
The ClamAV anti-virus scanner has been upgraded to version 0.93.
Bug Fixes and Feature Requests:
· Symbolic links added for LDAP library files so LDAP command line utilities can be used.
· A new script is added - /opt/insight/bin/fixperms.sh – which will reset permissions on all files in the cyrus mailstore in the event they are corrupted by a backup/recovery cycle. This script must be run at the command line by root.
· Cyrusgruph and Mailgraph are fixed
· Top of screen banner now shows which server you have logged into, and both the Admin screens and Webclient show who you are logged in as. The Administrative screens now have a help button to access the context sensitive links to the online manuals.
· Redundant files are now deleted from the system
· The Administration manual has been updated to provide instructions on modifying Internationalization files.
· The WebClient user manual is now available from the WebClient help button.
· The full Administration manual is now only available online if you are logged in as an administrator.
· Fitz 533231 – Sent items subfolder now have correct To: heading
· Fitz 532864 – Email scrolling header is now fixed
· Fitz 533573 – Email mqueue management screen now works correctly
· Fitz 534151 – tar.php replaced to fix problem with corrupted admin password after restore
· Fitz 532405 – Incorporate graphics in Global Disclaimers enabled
· Migrated users can now access private domains
· Hidden sync messages in Outlook now removed
· Permissions fixed on slurpd
· New backup and restore scripts to include backup of SCOconfig.xml
· Duplicate messages with always_bcc and email forwarding have been eliminated
· /opt/insight/htdocs/UserFiles directory tree added for uploaded image & multimedia files.
· Internationalization files updated and recompiled
· The Contacts list screen has been fixed to support searching for contacts in the WebClient
· The browser address bar favicon has been changed to a SCO image
· The number of additional users for SCOoffice is now listed in the scoadmin license manager